Soul Calibur: Spirits on Fire is a fan made video game belonging to the Soul series. It was released for the XBOX 360 & PS3, an versions for XBOX ONE and PS4 are set to be released in a not so distant future. The game contains characters from both Soul Calibur IV & Soul Calibur V as also new characters, plus 4 guest, 5 special characters and 1 DLC, the game is also known for including a huge roster and the Handicap battle game mode.

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Plot

Gameplay

Game Modes
Soul Calibur: Spirits on Fire introduced an unique game mode called Handicap Match, in this mode, the player goes throught 4 stages, in which he/she has to face 4 teams of 3 characters each, once the player beats then, he'll/she'll be given a reward, such as new weapons for character costumization, XP points alongside other things.

Shura: Unlockable after beating her in the storyline (Chapter 9)/Win 50 matches with Cervantes in Medium - Hard difficulty.

Ashlotte: Unlockable after beating her in the storyline (Chapter 9)/Win 67 matches with Astaroth in Medium - Hard difficulty.

The Devil: Unlockable after beating the storyline in Super Hard Mode/Win 666 matches with any of the following characters: Nightmare, Siegfried, Murton, Spawn, Scorpion or Belphegor in Super Hard Mode.

Differences of PlayStation 4 & XBOX ONE

Soul Calibur: Spirits on Fire is set to be released in the next generation consoles some time around 2014 (fall-winter) or early 2015 (spring), with new features such as three aditional guest characters, more battle modes and innovation on character costumization. Guest characters are still to be revealed such as the other battle modes, however, character costumization features will allow the player to increase/add character's abilities and attacks, also it will feature more weapons and costumes. Slender Man will be already in the game as a character, such as the other 4 guests.

Trivia

Originally, Deathstroke was not suppossed to be included in the game, instead, the team decided to put Marvel comics characters Deadpool or Wolverine, but they couldn't adquire the rights for them. Also, The Arbiter (Thel 'Vadam) from Halo series was intended to be an exclusive character for both the XBOX 360 and XBOX ONE versions, but for unknown reasons, he was scrapped.

Some characters in the game have three costumes, while others possess two.

At first, Gium Barium wasn't suppossed to be Nightmare, instead, it was thought of Belphegor or even Felicia.

In difference to other characters, Deathstroke can use a variety of modern weapons, from swords and sticks to guns & bombs.

This is the first game to introduce the "Handicap" battle mode.

The Devil's character was not fully planned to appear in the game. The creators wanted to place Night Terror, but they thought that various Soul characters were already on it.

Slender Man's introduction was because of a legend. During an intreview the creators were asked about new characters, to which one of them replied; "You're going to see a lot of surprises and new additions, some of them, totally unexpected, such as hum..Slender Man [laughs]" This rumor was believed by many players and even suppossed pictures started to appear, showing Slender Man as a character. It spread and finally on October of that year, the Slender Man was released as DLC character.

Astral Chaos: Pathway is the arena that possess more music themes, due to the huge amount of guest characters.